I'm just going to say that judging what the world first/second clears do in their comps is not a good indicator of what "average" groups are doing. People pushing for world first clears do weird stuff and use hyper-optimized comps and all sorts of silly things that the "average" savage group might not do.

Second of all I think it's generally agreed that the DPS checks in place in Alex Savage are designed with a MUCH higher item level in mind than what people were sitting at when it was released. Like, S-E is clearly thinking people will have a few weeks worth of esoterics under their belts before even looking at clearing some of these things. Watch the world first clear for A3S and see how they literally beat the enrage as it's about to go off, and that should be proof positive of this theory. And that is likely with their hyper-optimized group and all that jazz.

Frankly I think PLD DPS does need a little buff (people have been talking about this on the tank forums for weeks) but that it's a good idea to wait and have a few more data points before concluding that it's completely broken. I think they're in an OK place, maybe the current tier doesn't favor them but that's just the way hardcore raiding works, not every class can be "optimal" for every tier.